(05-24-2022 07:49 PM)jsw3ent Wrote: (05-24-2022 03:51 PM)Hernando Hills Tiger Wrote: (05-24-2022 03:46 PM)Claw Wrote: (05-24-2022 03:29 PM)jsw3ent Wrote: (05-24-2022 03:27 PM)gusrob Wrote: In response to former guest:
Having the discussion here gets silenced. The posts get removed. Swept under the rug. Violence and chaos were in-sited in 2020 utilizing a marxist group, all politically driven. Our football team supported the insanity. They didn't need to. They didn't have to volunteer to be the tip of the sword. It alienated half our fanbase. You want to ignore it but it's true.
And now you want to change the question to "what did our football leadership do wrong in 2021?" Did the slate get cleaned? Are the AD and HC no longer responsible for their actions in 2020?
^^ YEP THIS ^^
To make it worse, BLM has delivered nothing. Nothing.
They had $500 million in corporate pledges, and what have they actually done? Did they do anything for Memphis? ANYTHING? I don't live there anymore, so maybe I missed something.
I haven't seen anything at all other than some questionable leaders using sincerely upset people to line their pockets. I'm not faulting or questioning the way people feel, but the organization itself has been a colossal failure.
#BlackLivesMatter was founded in 2013 in response to the acquittal of Trayvon Martin’s murderer. Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, Inc. is a global organization in the US, UK, and Canada, whose mission is to eradicate white supremacy and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes. By combating and countering acts of violence, creating space for Black imagination and innovation, and centering Black joy, we are winning immediate improvements in our lives.
We are expansive. We are a collective of liberators who believe in an inclusive and spacious movement. We also believe that in order to win and bring as many people with us along the way, we must move beyond the narrow nationalism that is all too prevalent in Black communities. We must ensure we are building a movement that brings all of us to the front.
We affirm the lives of Black queer and trans folks, disabled folks, undocumented folks, folks with records, women, and all Black lives along the gender spectrum. Our network centers those who have been marginalized within Black liberation movements.
We are working for a world where Black lives are no longer systematically targeted for demise.
We affirm our humanity, our contributions to this society, and our resilience in the face of deadly oppression.
The call for Black lives to matter is a rallying cry for ALL Black lives striving for liberation.
I thought it was an organization to take the donations and buy mansions across AMERICA for the officers of the organization --especially in California ---and to promote the end of the traditional family unit
There have been a lot of questions surrounding recent reports about the purchase of property in California. We wanted to take a moment to address you, and our community as a whole directly. This property has served multiple functions for all of us and our movement over the past 18 months.
First, this property serves as an opportunity for us as Black people to own our land interest free and unencumbered by any white corporate establishment. It is amazing that anyone would question us for wanting to own property, as the real estate market nationwide has increased in value significantly over the past 18 months.
But instead of being lauded as making smart, diversified investment decisions so we can control and define our own destinies, our movement is chastised and vilified. The double standard and embedded racism is clear.
Second, this property has served as a safe haven to protect the leaders of our Black nationalist movement. Our leaders and their families, including their children, have been targeted by white supremacists. They have been threatened with physical harm. We have a responsibility to protect them, and this property has supported those efforts.
Third, and most relevant in this announcement, the property was always intended to support our commitment to Arts and Culture in Black communities. Specifically, current headlines grossly mischaracterize the Foundation’s intended use of a property that has been set to support our Creator’s Fellowship. The false narratives being spread have the potential to harm organizers doing brilliant work across the country to support Black lives. We want to be abundantly clear that these reports do not reflect the totality of the movement.
We truly apologize for the distress and the harm that these false narratives have caused you, other supporters, and the entire BLM Fam who work in service of Black liberation daily. BLM Global Network Foundation recognizes that we have more work to do in order to increase transparency, ensure our relationship remains trustworthy, and that we communicate openly.
We believe that Black creativity is necessary and vital to Black survival. Since our founding, we’ve gone beyond just demanding accountability when it comes to state-sanctioned violence, taking protest to the polls, and embracing and uplifting the culture for the better. That’s something we’ve held sacred to our core, and have partnered with artists of every kind since our founding. This is why this property — known as the Creator’s House — was purchased, specifically for our Creator Fellowship.
The Creator’s House serves as a space for Black folks to share their gifts with the world and hone their craft as they see fit, under the conditions that work best for them and in a safe space free from systems of oppression that exist in various creative industries.
Something we were ecstatic to share with you all has unfortunately been overlooked and narrated negatively through other headlines, so we hope that this Creator’s Fellowship and House article can also provide more context. You can read all about the Creator’s Fund in our exclusive with NewsOne.
Through the Creator’s Fellowship and House, we are celebrating and uplifting Black creatives, dancers, filmmakers, culinary artists, musicians, storytellers, narrative artists, digital influencers — you name it!
It has always been on us to claim our joy, and we’re excited to launch this fellowship in order to do just that. This will provide an outlet for countless Black creatives to express and practice radical joy.
We’ll be back in your inbox in no time with application details. And let us be abundantly clear: We are committed to working toward increased transparency so that you know who to trust when inflammatory narratives show up in the media.
Of course, this does not change the fact that, as we’ve seen countless times in history, white supremacy will always attempt to tear down Black movements and movement work. They will spread misinformation and disinformation to attempt to pin us against each other.
There will always be double standards and overly aggressive scrutiny to try to discredit and delegitimize work being done towards Black liberation. But despite forces against us, we will never stop fighting towards an abolitionist future. A future where all Black Lives Matter.
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One more advantage to the completion of the new Liberty Stadium in 2025
